Best Asian Movies 2015
Best Asian Movies 2015
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- DirectorHsiao-Hsien HouStarsShu QiChang ChenYun ZhouA female assassin receives a dangerous mission to kill a political leader in eighth-century China.
- DirectorYû IrieStarsKazuya KamenashiYûsuke IseyaKyôko FukadaIn Japan, Lieutenant Colonel Yuki (Yusuke Iseya) recommends the creation of spy training school "D Kikan".
- DirectorSion SonoStarsErika SawajiriGô AyanoKôsuke ToyoharaA down-and-out man finds a new job in Tokyo's red-light district as a scout who recruits women to work in the adult-entertainment business.
- DirectorVitaliy ManskiyStarsLee Zin-MiYu-YongHye-YongA propaganda documentary about North Korea that reveals a few hidden facts because the director continues filming between the scripted scenes.
- DirectorDong-hoon ChoiStarsJun Ji-hyunLee Jung-jaeHa Jung-wooWhile Korea is occupied by the Japanese Army in 1933, the resistance plans to kill the Japanese Commander. But their plan is threatened by a traitor within their group and also the enemies' forces are hunting them down.
- DirectorHeung-sik ParkStarsLee Byung-hunKim Go-eunLee Jun-hoWhile in medieval Korea, a young girl sets out to revenge the betrayal and the death of her mother. But therefore she must face one of the most powerful men and warriors of the Goryo Dynasty.
- DirectorMotonobu HoriShinji ItadakiKazuchika KiseStarsMaaya SakamotoKen'ichirô MatsudaIkkyû JakuNewport-City 2029: Major, an advanced female cyborg, is in charge of the anti-terrorism etc. unit reporting directly to the government. Taking out terrorists and freeing hostages at an embassy doesn't go smoothly. Major investigates why.
- DirectorShunji IwaiStarsYû AoiAnne SuzukiShôko AidaAlice transfers to a new school, where students believe that one student per school year is cursed, whom they call Judas Iscariot. Alice is deemed the new Judas, but what happened to the former Judas?
- DirectorKatsuyuki MotohiroStarsKanako MomotaShiori TamaiReni TakagiDevised as a vehicle for the members of Momoiro Clover Z, The Curtain Rises is the story of Saori and school-mates who are high school students and members of a performance group. When teacher Yoshioka, who has performance experience, joins the school she exhorts the girls to become more ambitious and go for the national contest.
- DirectorMai SuzukiStarsMirei KiritaniShôta TotsukaNatsume MitoKiira seems like an ordinary young girl, who likes to talk with her friends and to dress up. Her ultimate goal is to become the world's best baker, but what differentiates her from others is that she is a vampire. She has never told anyone her secret, including her childhood friend Tetsu, whom she played with everyday and liked as a child. After her parents died when Kiira was only 12 years old, she had to go live with her relatives and lost contact with Tetsu. Now, 8 years later, Tetsu appears at the bakery where Kiira is working part-time. Kiira is ecstatic to see her first love again. Soon, they are dating and Kiira dreams of having a family with Tetsu. Kiira also becomes filled with worries because she is vampire.
- DirectorTakahisa ZezeStarsTowa ArakiTsuyoshi IharaRenji IshibashiIn the early 1990s, experiments were carried out secretly in Japan. Two different methods were used in the experiments. One method involved forcing stress upon expecting parents and when the baby was born, provoke the baby into mutations and develop their special abilities. The other method involved birth to babies having abilities of animals and insects. The special abilities were derived from gene manipulation. Subaru, Saya and others were born from those experiments. Subaru (Masaki Okada) possesses incredible strength and vision. Saya (Riko Narumi) possesses super hearing abilities. They both grew up in the same facility. They work for Koichiro Watase (Tsuyoshi Ihara) who is the senior Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs and has lofty ambitions as a politician. Koichiro Watase then orders them to find the runaway daughter of a powerful politician. The runaway girl has in her possession a secret file. Subaru, Saya and others become involved in the slaughter group "Ageha." The group is led by Manabu (Shota Sometani). Based on the novel "Strayer's Chronicle" by Takayoshi Honda (first published April 5, 2012 by Shueisha Inc.).
- DirectorSabuStarsKen'ichi MatsuyamaIto OnoRen ÔsugiA fantasy love story that drifts between this world and heaven. Chasuke (Ken'ichi Matsuyama) is in charge of making tea in heaven. He has feelings for a human woman named Yuri (Ito Ohno) whom he has seen from a writer who is scripting her life from heaven. He knows that Yuri is condemned to die in a car accident. To save the woman, Chasuke goes down to this world.
- DirectorJoel SoissonStarsLily Bhusadhit-a-nanTuchapong RugtawatrChinnapat KitichaivaranggoonA rebellious Thai-American girl, sent to live with relatives in rural Thailand, clashes with an entire village when she befriends a mute peasant boy and inspires him to compete in the annual buffalo race.
- DirectorVictor VuStarsThinh VinhKhang TrongLam Thanh MySet in the countryside village of Vietnam, Yellow Flowers on the Green grass is a touching tale of innocent love, friendships and brotherhood.
- DirectorJargalsaikhan BaatarSodura is a young woman from the Tsaatan, the reindeer people of the eastern Mongolian taiga, a formerly nomadic tribe who have now settled. As a little girl, she relocated to the big city when her parents died, but growing up there she found herself unable to adapt to the city lifestyle, and ran away from an abusive lover, returning to her home in the taiga, heartbroken. Her tribe blames her coming home pregnant with outsider's child. The only person who understands her pain is a childhood friend. Sodura falls in love with him, but he is engaged to a girl from a western tribe, in a marriage arranged by his father the tribal leader, to diversify their bloodline because inbreeding is bearing too many retarded children and the tribe is in danger of perishing. Tribesmen discover illegal poachers who have killed all but three of the endangered moose of the taiga, and one of the tribe is suspected of aiding the poachers. Sodura contemplates aborting the baby, but decides to ask the help of the tribe's shaman who suggests Sodura should be the one to go on envoy to preserve the life of the reindeer people of the taiga.
- DirectorBrian PerkinsStarsShine Htet ZawKo Yin Saw RiKo Yin Than MaungStory of four young monks left alone in their remote monastery in Myanmar. Shot entirely in newly-opened Myanmar with non-actors, the film bridges spirit, cinema, and traditional Burmese storytelling to open a view onto an unseen world.
- DirectorAryanto YuniawanStarsReza RahadianKeagan KangMarlon Dance-HooiMusa, a thirteen-year-old shoe shiner, with Yumna, undergoes destiny through their adventure of waging war during the war time. Will they manage to bring peace among the troops keeping on fighting for nothing?